Just like any mom, my mother would say certain phrases over and over again. She probably thought they were falling on deaf ears (and at the time, they might have been) but amazingly now, I hear her words in my mind all the time. If I leave something on the table I hear, "A place for everything and everything in its place." If I drop my purse and coat right by the front door I hear, "It would take less time to just put it up the right way the first time than to have to come back here and hang it up later." I actually now find myself saying to Kyle what my mom used to say to me, "Making up the bed makes the entire room look cleaner."
A phrase of hers I always heard growing up was, "It is all about presentation." My mom is incredible at the details and presentation of an event. Just check out all her little touches at the baby shower she hosted! Not only did she do the flower arrangements, she planned a menu that would be colorful, arranged all of it and made adorable little duckie nametags to boot!
Recently we had another couple over for lunch. After all the years of thinking I was ignoring my mom, it was like she took over my body as I entertained. I poured the water into a pretty glass pitcher so the Brita was out of sight. I baked the quiche in a nice dish so that it could be served from the table. I served the quiche with a salad and strawberry vinegrette dressing so that there was some pretty green and red on the plate. And when I found myself slicing strawberries so that they could be fanned out on either side of the cookies and then adding a dollop of whipped cream to accent the colors of the dessert, I could only think of the saying, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all."
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You are a Southern grrrl in the best sense!
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